Lap

Definition: Lap

Lap

Noun

1. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.

2. An area of control or responsibility; "the job fell right in my lap".

3. The part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs.

4. A flap that lies over another part.

5. Movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance".

6. Touching with the tongue.

Verb

1. Lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another.

2. Pass the tongue over.

3. Move with or make or cause to move with or make a whistling or hissing sound, as of liquids.

4. Take up with the tongue; "The cat lapped up the milk".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Satire

Computing

Chemical Industry

Dream Interpretation

Industry

Mechanical Engineering

Military & Defense

Mining

Nuclear Energy & Physics

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Lap

Abode

Lap, sojourn, housing, quarters, headquarters, resiance, tabernacle, throne, ark.

Animal

Dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie.

Circumjacence

Verb: lie around; adVerb: surround, beset, compass, encompass, environ, inclose, enclose, encircle, embrace, circumvent, lap, gird; belt; begird, engird; skirt, twine round; hem in; (circumscribe).

Clothing

Verb: invest; cover; envelope, lap, involve; inwrap, enwrap; wrap; fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up; overlap; sheath, swathe, swaddle, roll up in, circumvest.

Food

Drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, chugalug, tipple; (be drunken); empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle.

Inactivity

Take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.

Sleeping; Verb: asleep; fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep; in a sound sleep; sound as a top, dormant, comatose; in the arms of Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus.

Intemperance

Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury; indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed.

Noun: intemperance; sensuality, animalism, carnality; tragalism; pleasure; effeminacy, silkiness; luxury, luxuriousness; lap of pleasure, lap of luxury; free living.

Interiority

Contents; substance, pith, marrow; backbone; (center); heart, bosom, breast; abdomen; vitals, viscera, entrails, bowels, belly, intestines, guts, chitterings, womb, lap; penetralia, recesses, innermost recesses; cave; (concavity).

Physical Pleasure

Noun: pleasure; physical pleasure, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure; bodily enjoyment, animal gratification, hedonism, sensuality; luxuriousness. Adjective: dissipation, round of pleasure, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease; pillow. (support); luxury, lap of luxury; purple and fine linen; bed of downs, bed of roses; velvet, clover; cup of Circe. (intemperance).

Support

Supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings.

Crosswords: Lap

Afrikaan (Laplander, Lapp), Danish (rag, scrap), Dutch (Laplander, Lapp, patch, rag, scrap), Hungarian (card, deflector, drilling, face, flat, lamina, laminae, page, plate, section, side, slab, tabula rasa).

It fell into my lap. (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

Oh yeah, she's got her head in the guy's lap alright (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël)

It is Jewelia I want, not one of her lap dogs (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence)

I hold 'em on my lap. (Follow the Fleet; writing credit: Hubert Osborne; Allan Scott)

Went to the store, sat on Santa's lap, asked him to bring my friends all kinds of crap (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Diane's sittin' on Jackie's lap ("Jack and Diane"; performing artist: John Cougar Mellencamp)

In the backseat piece spilling Henney in his lap (No More; performing artist: Ruff Endz)

Lap dance fantasy (Perfect Gentleman; performing artist: Wyclef Jean)

The Last Lap (1928)

Lizzie's Last Lap (1924)

In the Lap of the Gods (1916)

Virtual Lap Dancers (2003)

Lap Dancing (2003)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Baby's Christmas Treasury (Random House Lap Library) (reference)

• Elbows Off the Table, Napkin in the Lap, No Video Games During Dinner: The Modern Guide to Teaching Children Good Manners (reference)

• Lap Quilting Lives! (reference)

• On Mother's Lap (reference)

• The Baby's Lap Book (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Last Lap (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Lap Dancing (reference)

• Learn to Play Western Swing Steel Guitar for Lap & Non-Pedal Models, Video One: Learning the Basics (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Creative Manufacturing Computer Lap Desk (Black/Khaki) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Baby Jockey Lap Shoulder Coverall Navy - Large (reference)

• Oregon Scientific SL928D 100 Lap Sports Stopwatch (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The image shows a father holding a young child on his lap. They seem to be watching an event outside of the picture. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

An asian nurse instructs a black mother, who holds her little girl in her lap, in various poses. There is also 1 slide and 1 print of the girl and her mother alone. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Young African American woman, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right, with hands folded on her lap. Credit: Library of Congress.

Down he tumbled, in a great fright directly into Petronella's lap!. Credit: Library of Congress.

He himself, would sit by the old Dutch housewives with a purring grimalkin on his lap. Credit: Library of Congress.

James Whitcomb Riley, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, with dog upon his lap, waving goodbye, on sidewalk in front of porch] / LCN. Credit: Library of Congress.

Comical scene showing maid sitting on man's lap kissing him as his wife watches. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rufus Blakeman, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, facing front, hands folded in lap. Credit: Library of Congress.

Horace Greeley, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated in chair, wearing tall hat, folded newspaper in lap, carpet on floor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lincoln resting in chair, top hat in lap. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground -- what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour? We see then: the means of production and of exchange, on whose foundation the bourgeoisie built itself up, were generated in feudal society. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Mrs Dedalus was eating little and Dante sat with her hands in her lap.

Grampa choked, and a mouthful of paste sprayed into his lap, and he coughed weakly

She carried me on her lap in a box tied about her waist

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Resting or static tremor occurs when the muscle is at rest, for example when the hands are lying on the lap. This type of tremor is often seen in patients with Parkinson's disease. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

Hong Kong's new international airport at Chek Lap Kok has settled into a routine of efficiency after three years of operations. (references)

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Government-funded core projects, including those related to the Chek Lap Kok Airport and environmental protection, have fueled the development of Hong Kong's economy. (references)

Hong Kong

In 1998, the US$9 billion Chek Lap Kok Airport replaced Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport, which was strained beyond capacity in its last year of operation with 30 million passengers and 1.6 million tons of cargo. (references)

Travel

Albania

There are no restrictions (or required paperwork) on entering Albania with a lap top computer for personal use. (references)

Greece

One each of the following articles may also be brought in duty free, provided they are re-exported, that is, for the traveler's personal use: still and movie cameras, with suitable film; binoculars; portable radios; record players; typewriters, CD players and lap tops. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "lap": bell lap ♦ closed lap ♦ cold lap ♦ drop in smb.'s lap ♦ final lap ♦ in fortune's lap ♦ in the lap of Morpheus ♦ Inside lap ♦ it's in the lap of the gods ♦ lap about ♦ lap arbor ♦ lap choly ♦ lap course ♦ lap covering ♦ lap dissolve ♦ lap dog ♦ lap joint ♦ lap of a slate ♦ lap of honour ♦ lap of luxury ♦ lap of the gods ♦ lap over ♦ Lap riveting ♦ lap robe ♦ lap seam ♦ lap track ♦ lap turn ♦ lap up ♦ Lap weld ♦ lap width ♦ lap wrap ♦ outside lap ♦ pace lap ♦ recurrent lap ♦ single lap ♦ sliver lap machine ♦ surging lap ♦ teeming lap ♦ To lap boards ♦ To lap timbers ♦ victory lap ♦ zero lap. Additional references.

Beginning with "lap": lap-board, lap-boarding, lap-by-lap, LAP-D, lap-dog, lap-dogs, lap-joint, lap-jointed, lap-lap-lap, Lap-link, Lap-m, lap-of-luxury, lap-rope, lap-slide, lap-steel, lap-steels, lap-strake, lap-straked, lap-streak, lap-streaked, lap-top, lap-tops, lap-type, Lap-welded.

Ending with "lap": two-lap.

Albanian

lë në xhiro pas, lëpij (eat, lave, lick), lëpirje (lick), llokoçitje (plash, ripple, squelch), palë (cuff, fly, gathers, hem, lappet, pair, pendant, reef, roll, turn up), kapërcej (bypass, climb over, cross, exceed, fight off, get over, go one better than, hop, leap, leave out, miss out, outdo, overbalance, overcome, overmaster, overpower, span, surmount, transcend, turn, vault), mbështjell (clothe, coil, encase, enfold, enlace, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, inlace, involve, mantle, muffle, nuzzle, overcast, reel, reel up, roll, scarf, sheet, throw on, throw out, tuck up, twine, underpin, wind, wind on, wrap, wreathe), mbështjellje (convolution, covering, envelopment, kink, winding), etapë (bench mark, leg, phase, stage), përplasem lehtë, xhiro (gabion, round, turnover), pi me gjuhë (lap up), pirje me gjuhë, prehër, rrethoj (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, border on, circle, circumscribe, circumvent, close in, close on, compass, embosom, embower, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, engirdle, entwine, envelop, environ, fence in, flank, fold, gird, girdle, hedge in, hem, inclose, invest, leaguer, pocket, rail, rim, ring, round up, span, surround, wreathe), shkelin njëra mbi tjetrën, shkelje (breaking, crushing, delinquency, encroachment, impingement, infraction, infringement, invasion, irregularity, obtrusion, offence, outrage, overlap, perambulation, squelcher, stamping, transgression, trespass, violation), shtrihem (extend, lie, lie back, lie down, outspread, spread), vë njëra mbi tjetrën, mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, stuff, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مصقل (pithy), ‏مرحلة (degree, grade, juncture, period, phase, point, stage, step), ‏مدى التراكب, ‏لف (coil, cover, curl, encompass, enfold, envelop, enwrap, fold up, furl, infold, reel, roll up, rolling, spool, surround, swaddle, swathe, twine, twist, whirl, wind, winding, wrap, wrap up), ‏لعق (lap up, lick, licking, wash), ‏حضن (baby sit, bosom, clasp, cuddle, enfold, kiss, nestle, nurture, stain), ‏سبق منافسه, ‏طية (flexure, fold, gather, lappet, plait, plica, queue, recess, tuck, wrap), ‏طوى (double, double back, fold, pleat, replicate, roll up, turn down, wreathe, writhe), ‏الطرف المتراكب, ‏إرتطم (barge into, bump, hit, impinge, stub), ‏ثنى (bend, deter, dissuade, drape, flex, fold, folding, goffer, hire, inflect, pat, pleat, pliable, praise, pucker, replicate, tribute, tuck), ‏ركبتان, ‏راكب (imbricate, one horse, passenger, rider, riding, superimpose), ‏دورة مفردة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

партия (clan, game, match, part, party, side), лоча (swig, swill), лоно (fold), покривам отчасти, пола (skirt), полирам (abrade, brighten up, buff, burnish, face, glaze, gloss, planish, polish, rumble), поли (brim, foot), подгъвам (bend under, bend under tuck in, fold, hem, tuck), долна месеста част (lappet), пасвам (fit), загръщам (enfold, envelop, enwrap, involve, snuggle, tuck, wrap), пляскам (clap, plash, slap, smack, splash), плискане (plash, slosh, spatter, swash, wash), плискам се (dabble, plash, slop about, spatter, swash, wash), изминавам (cover, elapse, log, make, measure, ride), излоквам, изпреварвам (anticipate, forestall, get ahead of, head, outrun, outsail, outstrip, pull ahead), дължина на една намотка, подплата (backing, liner, lining), обиколка на писта, сгъване (folding), свободна платка, слабо питие (slipslop), част (concern, detachment, division, fraction, interest, leg, member, movement, outfit, parcel, part, partition, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, rate, section, segment, share, slice, snack, unit), шлифовам (cut, planish, polish, smooth, varnish), шлифовален диск, гънка (circumvolution, cockle, corrugation, crease, doubling, fold, kink, plication, pocket, pucker, rugosity, rumple, wrinkle), лочене, обгръщам (cover, embrace, enfold, enlace, include, wrap), етап (leg, point, round, stadium, stage), нагъване (folding, plications), нагъвам (cockle, corrugate, flex, fold, gobble, punish, put away, ruckle, scoff, tuck away, tuck into, walk into, wolf), навивам (coil, curl, expend, fake, furl, quill, roll, roll up, scroll, set, take up, tuck, tuck up, wind, wind up), намотаване, намотавам (convolve, reel, wind, wind up), надиплям (enfold, fold, kilt, pleat, quill, ruck, ruffle), застъпвам се (intercede, interpose, overlap, plead, wrap), скут, глътка (drachm, drag, drain, dram, draught, drink, drop, gulp, mouthful, peg, pharynx, potion, pull, shot, sip, sup, swallow, taste). (various references)

Chinese 

膝部 (LAPS), 餂 (lick), 舐 (to lick), 周 (all, attentive, circuit, complete, cycle, encircle, every, thoughtful, week). (various references)

Czech

lalok (dewlap, lobe), okraj (border, brim, brink, edge, end, fringe, margin, periphery, rim, verge, welt), klín (Gore, insert, salience, wedge), fáze (phase, stage), etapa (phase). (various references)

Danish

overlapning (lap joint, overlap, overlapping, strapped joint), overlap (overlap), fold (fold, furrow, wrinkle), flig (overlap, sliver, spill). (various references)

Dutch

plassen (plash, splash, urinate, wade), klotsen (plash, splash), klapperen (plash, splash), kabbelen (burble, gurgle, murmur, plash, purl, splash). (various references)

Esperanto

plaŭdi (plash, splash). (various references)

Faeroese

smella (clap, click, plash, rattle, splash), skvatla (plash, splash), klappa (plash, splash). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچیدن (Complicate, Envelop, Enwrap, Fake, Impact, Nest, Reverberate, Roll, Screw, Swab, Swath, Swathe, Tweak, Twinge, Twist, Wattle, Wind, Wrap), محیط (Circumference, Comprehensive, Entourage, Environment, Girth, Milieu, Outside, Perimeter, Periphery, Sphere), محل نشوونما, لیس زدن , لبه لباس , حریصانه خوردن (Devour, Gobble, Gull, Gut, Guzzle, Wolf), تاه کردن (Fold, Ply, Ruffe), سجاف (List), سرکشیدن (Guzzle, Quaff, Swill), اغوش (Bosom, Breast, Heart), شلپ شلپ کردن (Whop), دامن لباس (Skirt), باصداچیزی خوردن . (various references)

Finnish

loiske (splash), limitys (interlacing, interleaving, overlap), limittyminen (overlap), limittäminen (fanned stacking of letters, overlap, overlapping, overlapping of letters, tiling of letters), latkia, laskos (box-pleat, fold, pleat, tuck), syli (arms, cord, fathom, six feet), ratakierros, kierros (circuit, detour, orbit, revolution, round, turn), helma (hem). (various references)

French

clapoter. (various references)

German

schoß (skirt, spindled, vagina, womb), plätschern (babble, bubble, burble, lapping, patter, plash, ripple, splash), klatschen (applaud, blab, clap, go smack, gossip, pitter patter, plash, ripple, slap, slosh, smack, smash, sneak, splash, swat, talk, tattle, tell tales, thwack, to applaud, to chin-wag, to clap), überlappen (interleave, overlap, to interleave, to lap). (various references)

Greek 

γόνατα. (various references)

Hebrew 

ללקק (lick), לקפל (fold, fold up, pleat, tuck), חיק (axil, bosom, heart, pubis), אלומת שחת, חפיה (covering, overlap), ברך (elbow, knee). (various references)

Hungarian

takarás (cloaking, hiding, overlaying, shielding, surface), szárny (arm, fan-tail, flank, flap, flier, pinion, plane, side, van, vane, wing), fedél (cap, cover, lid, roof, roofing), cimpa (Pinna). (various references)

Indonesian

tanjak, pangkuan, pangku, menghirup (breathe, inhale). (various references)

Italian

lembo (border, edge, flapper, hem, margin, skirt, strip), lambire (lick), lappare (lap up, stone), leccata (lick, licking), leccare (lick), avvolgere (befog, cloak, enclose, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, inclose, muffle, pack, package, reel, roll, shroud, wind, wrap, wrap up), coccolare (canoodle, Cocker, coddle, cosher, cosset, cuddle, mollycoddle, pamper, pet), doppiare (double, dub, round, synchronize), falda (blade, brim, coat rack, flake, flap, flapper, foot, layer, leaf, sheet, slope, stratum, tail), giro (circle, circuit, coil, drive, girth, gyre, I endorse, ramble, revolution, ride, rotation, round, run, screw, slew, slue, spin, stroll, tour, trip, turn, turning, walk), grembo (womb), grinza (crease, Crinkle, fold, pleat, pucker, ruck, ruckle, wrinkle), sovrapposizione (overlap, superimposition), sciabordio (lapping, plash), sovrapporre (arise in addition, be superimposed, overlap, place on, superimpose), tappa (halt, leg, stage, stay, stop), piega (bends, crease, Crinkle, fold, inclines, plait, pleat, ply, tuck, turn, twist, wrinkle), piegare (bend, bow, crook, diffract, droop, duck, flex, fold, give in, incline, inflect, subdue, tend, tilt, tuck, turn, yield), ricoprimento (bottom splash, covering, curtaining, double skin, dump cover, ingot shell, overlap, overlay, paper plastic overlay, plaster, scab, shell), ricoprire (cover, cover again, cover oneself, encase, fill, hold, lay, overgrow, overlay, plaster, plate, recover, re-cover), sciabordare (swash), sovrapposizione sul ago (overlap). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

膝 (knee), ラタン家具 (lacquer, ladder, lap time, laptop, LASH, latch, latex, Latin, Latin America, Latin-American, latitude, lucky, lucky seventh, lucky zone, rack, rap, Rassa, rat, rattan furniture, ruck, rudder, ruffle, rush, rush hour, rush print, Russell, wrap, wrap-around, wraparound skirt, wrapping), 周 (Chou, circuit, circumference, surroundings, vicinity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ラップ (rap, wrap), しゅう (Chou, circuit, circumference, collection, dried meat, dry up, great number, masses, province, sect, state, the people, vicinity, week), ひざ (knee). (various references)

Korean 

랩 (LAPS). (various references)

Manx

ught (ridge cut at one sweep), sliee (lapping), lant, garrey (bout of work, gallop, impetus, rubber, spell, stint, trick, turn), filley (braid, collapse, corrugate, crease, crinkle, double, double up, entwine, fold, fold up, furl, jackknife, plait, ply, roll up, turn up, wrap), bolgym. (various references)

Norwegian

skvalpe, runde. (various references)

Pig Latin

aplay.(various references)

Portuguese

sobreposição (overlap, superposition), regaço, dobra (crease, crinkle, crumple, double, fold, folding, gather, kink, lappet, meander, plait, pleat, plica, ply, ruck, turnback, turn-down, turnover, winding, wrinkle). (various references)

Romanian

lepui, lovi cu un pleoscãit, lob (lobe), linge (eat, lick, toady), împãturi (convolve, fold), înfãşura (braid, coil, convolve, enfold, enshroud, enswathe, envelop, enwrap, fold, furl, muffle, pack, parcel, roll, swathe, twine, wind, wrap), înfãşurare de cilindri, înveli (case, cover, encase, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fleece, mantle, muffle, roof, sheathe, tuck, wrap), înveliş (cap, casement, casing, clothing, coat, coating, cover, crust, dress, envelopment, film, integument, jacket, layer, mantle, shroud, skin), învelitoare (cover, crash, dust cover, envelope, hood, wrapper), şa (saddle), şlefui (abrade, file, furbish, grind, mill, rough, smooth), depãşi cu o rundã, etapã (journey, period, phase, run, stage), face sã se îmbuce, îmbina (arrange, blend, combine, conjoin, connect, entwine, fasten, feather, frame, interfuse, interweave, joint, match, merge, mix, piece, put together, tie, unite), joc (acting, dance, dancing, game, lost motion, pastime, recreation, sport, sporting), suprapune (mix, overlap, superimpose, superpose), pânzã groasã (crash, huckaback), pãturã (bed, blanket, counterpane, cover, lick, section of the people, stratum, wrap), partidã (game, match, party), pleoscãi (splash), poalã (foot, hem, skirt, tail), pulpanã (skirt, tail), sân (bosom, breast, heart, teats, womb), se înfãşura (convolve, fold, furl), genunchi (knee, marrow bone). (various references)

Russian 

заезд, доводить (bring, size, take), плеск волн (play of the waves), плескаться (dabble, paddle, splash, wash), перекрывать (overlap, overlay, re-cover, span, straddling, wrap over), перекрыша, полировать (buff, burnish, furbish, polish, slicks), притир, притирать, дистанция (distance, range), жадно пить, укутывать (bundle up), завертывать (envelop, enwrap, fold, involve, wrap, wrap up), напуск, накрой, нахлестка (overlap), нахлестывать, колени (knees, marrowbones), колено;круг, раунд (round), лакать (guzzle, lap up, swills). (various references)

Scottish

sgùird , sgùirt (the lap), measan (a lapdog, lap-dog, messan). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lokati (drink, lap up), zapljuskivati (pound, slap, splash, wash), zapljuskivanje, srkati (lap up, sip, sup), prestići za ceo krug, preklopiti (fold, turn down), preklop, krug (circle, compass, gyre, ring, round), krilo (ala, fringe, pennon, pinion, wing), etapa (stage). (various references)

Spanish

lametada, lamer (lick), lengüetada (lick, licking), lamedura (lick), circuito (circuit, loop, system), faldón (coat tail, gable, shirttail, tail), falda (brisket, skirt, slope), etapa (degree, food ration, leg, phase, progress, stage), estar al nivel de (sustain), envolver (blanket, cocoon, cover, do up, encircle, enfold, envelop, implicate, imply, involve, mantle, muffle, muffle up, pack, pack up, package, paper, parcel, shroud, surround, swaddle, swathe, tie up, whip, wind, wrap, wrap up, wreathe), hacer una vuelta, correr (blow, chase, draw, flow, gallop, go about, go around, go it, go round, hare, hie, hurry, nip, pour, publish, race, run, run along, scour, scud, scurry, scuttle, shoot, slide, stream, travel, zap), arruga (cockle, crease, crinkle, fold, furrow, kink, line, pucker, ridge, ruck, ruffle, rumple, seam, wrinkle), chapaleteo, chapalear, cercar (bar, barrier off, beset, besiege, circle, cut off, encircle, enclose, encompass, fence, hedge, hem in, inclose, invest, obstruct, wall in), beso (kiss, love, osculation, Peck), besar (kiss, lick, osculate, Peck), aventajar (exceed, Excel, outmatch, outstrip, score, surpass, top), doblar a (buckle, sail round, toll), regazo, traslapar (overlap), toque (blast, chime, crux, Flitch, groundsill, jar, knock, stroke, test, touch), tocarse (dab, Flitch, impinge, jar, palp, touch, wing), superposición de un borde sobre otro (overlap), solape (overlap, overthrust, straddle, thrust, thrust fault), solapamiento (overlap, overlapping), fase (leg, light, phase, stage, time), rodillas (knees, marrowbones), traslaparse, recubrimiento (coating, cover, covering, overburden, overlap, overlay, overlay segment, overlay technique, pick, spray deposit, sprayed deposit), pliegue (crease, fold, kink, plait, pleat, plication, pucker, tuck), pata (Drake, duck, f, flat, foot, hoof, leg, pad, paw, peg, strap, tab), traslapo (overlap), vuelta (change, detour, facing, gyration, leg, reprise, return, revolution, round, row, spin, turn, turning, twist, walking), volar en (blast, explode, fly at, lob, set off), solapa (flap, lapel, revers). (various references)

Swedish

knä (elbow, knee), överlappning (overlap). (various references)

Thai

เลีย (lick), ห่อหุ้ม (enfold, enwrap), หน้าตัก. (various references)

Turkish

halat (hawser, lanyard, lashing, line, rope), üst üste gelmek (overlap), üstüne koymak (put upon, superimpose, superpose), şapır şupur içmek, şapırdatmak (click, plash, smack), şapırtı (plash, smack, splash), dalga sesi (wash), dizüstü etek, dolamak (cincture, coil, coil up, enlace, enwrap, reel, reel up, rotate, twist, whip, whirl, wind, wrap), örtmek (blanket, canopy, cap, carpet, case, cloak, close, clothe, cloud, coat, conceal, condone, cope, cover, cover up, encase, enshroud, envelop, hood, incase, robe, screen, shade, sheet, shield, shroud, shut, submerge, wrap), etek (filibeg, foot, skirt), yalayarak içmek, ip (cord, halter, lanyard, rope, string, tether, tightrope, twist), köpek maması, kat (coat, coating, deck, fall, flat, floor, fold, layer, multiple, pile, ply, stair, storey, story), kucak (arms, bosom), oburca yemek (devour, Raven, scoff, stodge), sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, involve, overgrow, pack, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), tur (circuit, round, rounder, tour, touring), tur yapmak (make a tour, tour), yalayıp yutmak (devour, dispatch, gobble, gobble up, punish, wolf, wolf down), etap (leg, stage). (various references)

Turkmen 

etek (skirt). (various references)

Ukrainian

хлебати, коліна, охоплювати (blanket, comprehend, comprise, cover, cut across, encircle, grip, grow on, overtake, overwhelm, prepossess, rap, wrap), мочка вуха (lobe), загортати (enfold, envelop, enwrap, hap, roll up, wrap), загинати (turn up), пола (flapper, skirt), поділ (break up, differentiation, divide, division, fission, parceling, parcelling), партія гри. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vạt áo (lappet), cái liềm (reaping-hook). (various references)

Welsh

lleibio (lick), lapio (wrap), arffed. (various references)

dug, ur. (various references)

alloes, gremio, gremium, sinu, sinum, sinus. (various references)

bearm. (various references)

lappe. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "lap": laparoscope, laparoscopes, laparoscopic, laparoscopies, laparoscopist, laparoscopists, laparoscopy, laparotomies, laparotomy, lapboard, lapboards, lapdog, lapdogs, lapel, lapeled, lapelled, lapels, lapful, lapfuls, lapidarian, lapidaries, lapidary, lapidate, lapidated, lapidates, lapidating, lapides, lapidified, lapidifies, lapidify, lapidifying, lapidist, lapidists, lapilli, lapillus, lapin, lapins, lapis, lapises, lapped, lapper, lappered, lappering, lappers, lappet, lappeted, lappets, lapping, laps, lapsable, lapse. (additional references)

Words ending with "lap": afterclap, backslap, burlap, clap, cowflap, dewlap, earflap, earlap, flap, interlap, jalap, mudflap, overlap, shiplap, slap, thunderclap, underlap. (additional references)

Words containing "lap": afterclaps, backslapped, backslapper, backslappers, backslapping, backslaps, burlaps, clapboard, clapboarded, clapboarding, clapboards, clapped, clapper, clapperclaw, clapperclawed, clapperclawing, clapperclaws, clappers, clapping, claps, clapt, claptrap, claptraps, collapse, collapsed, collapses, collapsibilities, collapsibility, collapsible, collapsing, cowflaps, dalapon, dalapons, dewlapped, dewlaps, dilapidate, dilapidated, dilapidates, dilapidating, dilapidation, dilapidations, earflaps, earlaps, elaphine, elapid, elapids, elapine, elapse, elapsed, elapses, elapsing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alap, blap, glap, iap, Klapp, laa, lacp, laf, Laj, lal, lao, lapa, lape, lapi, lapo, Lapr, lapt, lapz, laq, larp, lau, lauph, Lebp, lewp, lgp, lipo, Lipu, lja, llp, lopf, lopp, lp, lpa, lpac, lpar, Lsap, lup, lupo, lyp, lza, lzap, olap, tlap, wlap. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: alp, pal.

-1 letter: al, la, pa.

+1 letter: alps, clap, flap, lamp, laps, leap, lipa, opal, pail, pale, pall, palm, palp, pals, paly, pawl, peal, pial, plan, plat, play, plea, pula, salp, slap.

+2 letters: aleph, alpha, ample, amply, ampul, appal, appel, apple, apply, aptly, clamp, claps, clapt, clasp, copal, culpa, flaps, galop, haply, jalap, jalop, kalpa, lamps, lapel, lapin, lapis, lapse, layup, leaps, leapt, lepta, limpa, maple, milpa, nopal, opals, padle, pails, palea, paled, paler, pales, palet, palls, pally, palms, palmy, palpi, palps, palsy, panel, papal, parle, parol, patly, pawls, peals, pearl, pedal, penal, pepla, petal, phial, phyla, pibal, pical, pilaf, pilar, pilau, pilaw, pilea, pipal, place, plack, plage, plaid, plain, plait, plane, plank, plans, plant, plash, plasm, plate, plats, platy, playa, plays, plaza, plead, pleas, pleat, plena, plica, polar, polka, psalm, pupal, ralph, salep, salpa, salps, scalp, sepal, slaps, spail, spale, spall, splat, splay, tepal, typal, ulpan.